diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/skopeo/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/skopeo/default.nix
index 1d4afc0a4ec..e9fc9a969a7 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/skopeo/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/skopeo/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 { stdenv
-, buildGoPackage
+, buildGoModule
 , fetchFromGitHub
 , runCommand
 , gpgme
@@ -26,18 +26,18 @@ let
 
   defaultPolicyFile = runCommand "skopeo-default-policy.json" {} "cp ${src}/default-policy.json $out";
 
-  goPackagePath = "github.com/containers/skopeo";
-
-  vendorPath = "${goPackagePath}/vendor/github.com/containers/image/v5";
+  vendorPath = "github.com/containers/skopeo/vendor/github.com/containers/image/v5";
 
 in
-buildGoPackage {
+buildGoModule {
   pname = "skopeo";
   inherit version;
-  inherit src goPackagePath;
+  inherit src;
 
   outputs = [ "out" "man" ];
 
+  vendorSha256 = null;
+
   excludedPackages = [ "integration" ];
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config go-md2man installShellFiles makeWrapper ];
@@ -51,11 +51,8 @@ buildGoPackage {
   '';
 
   postBuild = ''
-    # depends on buildGoPackage not changing …
-    pushd ./go/src/${goPackagePath}
     make install-docs MANINSTALLDIR="$man/share/man"
     installShellCompletion --bash completions/bash/skopeo
-    popd
   '';
 
   postInstall = stdenv.lib.optionals stdenv.isLinux ''